Obviously the War on Drugs was a scam. It would be super easy to set maximum sentences of death or life in prison, with leniency if someone gives up their dealer. Work your way up the chain until you find the top narcotics sources, and kill them. But the government/people didn't actually want that.
Not coincidentally, Red China got their longstanding drug problem under control by fighting their own War on Drugs with the intent to win rather than enrich their own intelligence agency and destroy social cohesion: instant death penalty for dealers, forced rehab for their millions upon millions of addicts, instant death penalty for anyone who relapses, and replacing opium poppies with other crops. They just know damn well from their own history how effective hooking their rivals' peoples to drugs can be.
Which is why they shoot drug dealers in the face...unless those dealers are selling somewhere else.
Jesus fuck, every day I find a new reason to despise China
Obviously the War on Drugs was a scam. It would be super easy to set maximum sentences of death or life in prison, with leniency if someone gives up their dealer. Work your way up the chain until you find the top narcotics sources, and kill them. But the government/people didn't actually want that.